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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Duty Dupee
Today's New England name:
Duty Dupee
Poor little Duty is buried in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston.
I'm sure that "Duty" sounded like a perfectly fine virtue name to Charles and Elizabeth Dupee in 1713, but "Duty Dupee" sounds like a port town stripper circa 1942.
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